Wheaton jets out to quick lead in 15-8 triumph, Cederberg hits 100 points

NORTON, MA- Wheaton College men's lacrosse junior Ben Cederberg (Duxbury, MA/Duxbury) became the 13th Lyon to hit the 100-point milestone, leading the hosts to a 15-8 victory over the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth on Saturday in Mirrione Stadium.

Wheaton raised its overall record to 2-2, while the Corsairs slipped below .500 at 3-4.  The Blue and White won its ninth straight game when scoring 10-plus goals.

Cederberg tallied a game-high seven points, including six assists, which fell two shy of the school record and were the most by a Lyon in five years.  Junior Chris Landers (Manchester, MA/Proctor Academy) recorded five tallies and one assist, while sophomore Billy McNamara (Mansfield, MA/Northfield Mount Hermon School) finished with four goals and one helper.

Senior Tim Horan (Cheshire, CT/Cheshire) assisted a pair of goals and scored once, junior Bobby Barry (Duxbury, MA/Duxbury) had a tally and an assist, while senior Warren Garceau (Guilford, CT/Canterbury School) went 18-for-23 on face-offs.  Classmate Schuyler Horn (New Hartford, CT/Kingswood-Oxford School) posted 11 saves in the victory, including seven in the fourth quarter alone.

For UMass-Dartmouth, junior Josh Arsenault (Revere, MA/Malden Catholic) accounted for three goals and an assist, while sophomore Christian Roberto (Wakefield, MA/Malden Catholic) turned in a hat trick.  Sophomore goalie Cameron Crown (Walpole, MA/Walpole) had 11 stops between the pipes.

Four different Lyons scored during a 1:59 stretch early in the opening period, with Cederberg and Landers combining for two goals and two assists during the run.  Arsenault closed out the first-quarter scoring with a goal at 2:39 before Wheaton answered with three straight tallies in the second for a 7-1 advantage at 3:24.  Arsenault converted a man-up opportunity with 1:18 to go that made the score 7-2, but a beautiful backhanded goal by McNamara while falling down with 17 ticks on the clock gave the Lyons an 8-2 halftime lead.

McNamara's man-up tally 1:48 into the third period extended the margin to seven.  Landers also scored with a man advantage with 11:43 to play in the third, making it 10-3.  With Wheaton leading 12-5 and under two minutes to go in the third, Landers and McNamara tallied goals just 21 seconds apart while pushing their team out to its first nine-goal lead at 14-5.

The Lyons hit the road on Wednesday for a non-conference game at New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) foe Amherst College at 6:00 p.m.